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From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics (2023)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2023). From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics. Water alternatives, 16(2), 321-345

The field of water ethics focuses on the judgments affecting water use and decision making, as well as their normative justification. These justifications can take many forms. Consequently, water ethics grapple with philosophical considerations, law,... Read More about From Integration to Intersectionality: A Review of Water Ethics.

Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression (2023)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2023). Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression. Progress in Human Geography, 47(6), 859-869. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231174965

This report on geography and ethics focusses on the justification of normative evaluations. Justifying why actions are right or wrong often relies on appeals to high-order principles, such as the common good. But this is not always the case, as this... Read More about Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression.

Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security (2023)
Journal Article
Harrington, C., Montana, P., Schmidt, J. J., & Swain, A. (2023). Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security. Global Environmental Politics, 23(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00702

This Forum article reports on a meta-review of more than 19,000 published works on water security, of which less than 1 percent explicitly focus on race or ethnicity. This is deeply concerning, because it indicates that race and ethnicity—crucial fac... Read More about Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security.

Geography and Ethics I: Placing Injustice in the Anthropocene (2022)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2022). Geography and Ethics I: Placing Injustice in the Anthropocene. Progress in Human Geography, 46(4), 1086-1094. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221097104

This report on geography and ethics focuses on the conditions of ethics. It identifies the ethical stakes of how accounts of unequal anthropogenic impacts on the Earth are specified with respect to both injustice and to what are deemed viable futures... Read More about Geography and Ethics I: Placing Injustice in the Anthropocene.

Of Kin and System: Rights of Nature and the UN Search for Earth Jurisprudence (2022)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2022). Of Kin and System: Rights of Nature and the UN Search for Earth Jurisprudence. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(3), 820-834. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12538

Since 2009, the United Nations programme on Harmony with Nature has sought a new philosophy of global environmental governance known as Earth jurisprudence. This paper examines how Harmony with Nature has advanced Earth jurisprudence to unite Indigen... Read More about Of Kin and System: Rights of Nature and the UN Search for Earth Jurisprudence.

Dispossession by municipalization: property, pipelines, and divisions of power in settler colonial Canada (2022)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2022). Dispossession by municipalization: property, pipelines, and divisions of power in settler colonial Canada. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40(5), 1182-1199. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544211065654

In Canada, Indigenous activists and scholars critique municipalization as a threefold process that subverts Indigenous authority to the state, then delegates forms of state authority to Indigenous peoples, and concludes by asserting that delegated au... Read More about Dispossession by municipalization: property, pipelines, and divisions of power in settler colonial Canada.

Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction (2021)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2021). Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction. Environmental Humanities, 13(2), 281-300. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9320156

In 2019, several funerals were held for glaciers. If enough glaciers die, could they go extinct? Is there geologic extinction? Yes. This article develops three arguments to support this claim. The first revisits Georges Cuvier’s original argument for... Read More about Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction.

Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights (2021)
Journal Article
Jenkins, W., Rosa, L., Schmidt, J., Band, L., Beltran-Peña, A., Clarens, A., Doney, S., Emanuel, R. E., Glassie, A., Quinn, J., Rulli, M. C., Shobe, W., Szeptycki, L., & D'Odorico, P. (2021). Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights. Bioscience, 71(11), 1157-1170. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab088

Although a wide body of scholarly research recognizes multiple kinds of values for water, water security assessments typically employ just some of them. In the present article, we integrate value scenarios into a planetary water security model to inc... Read More about Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights.

Water as Global Social Policy—International Organizations, Resource Scarcity, and Environmental Security (2021)
Book Chapter
Schmidt, J. J. (2021). Water as Global Social Policy—International Organizations, Resource Scarcity, and Environmental Security. In K. Martens, D. Niemann, & A. Kaash (Eds.), International Organizations in Global Social Governance (275-296). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65439-9_12

Water is an important area of global social policy. This chapter provides historical context for understanding how international organizations developed a distinctly global orientation to water policy alongside the emergence of global hydrology in th... Read More about Water as Global Social Policy—International Organizations, Resource Scarcity, and Environmental Security.

Water ethics: philosophy in practice (guest statement) (2020)
Book Chapter
Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Water ethics: philosophy in practice (guest statement). In P. Dearden, B. Mitchell, & E. O'Connell (Eds.), Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective (420-421). (6th ed.). Oxford University Press

Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene (2020)
Journal Article
Belcher, O., & Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(1), 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820953855

Hannah Arendt developed a twofold account of ‘being earthbound’ directly relevant to Anthropocene debates regarding the political. For Arendt, both senses of ‘being earthbound’ arose as humans began to act into nature, not merely upon it. The first s... Read More about Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene.

Pop-up infrastructure: Water ATMs and new delivery networks in India (2020)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Pop-up infrastructure: Water ATMs and new delivery networks in India. Water alternatives, 13(1), 119-140

Over the last decade, thousands of water ATMs have been installed across the Global South. In India, these vending machines increasingly augment both formal and informal networks of water supply and delivery. This article examines media reports on wa... Read More about Pop-up infrastructure: Water ATMs and new delivery networks in India.

Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta (2019)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta. Political Geography, 78, Article 102132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102132

Alberta's bitumen industry is frequently identified as a key site of environmental politics in the Anthropocene owing to the scale of its fossil fuel extraction operations. While popular images of surface mining activities often focus these discussio... Read More about Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta.

The moral geography of the Earth system (2019)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2019). The moral geography of the Earth system. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44(4), 721-734. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12308

Human impacts on the Earth system have profound moral consequences. The uneven generation and distribution of harms, and the acceleration of human forces now altering how the Earth system functions, also trouble moral accounts of belonging. This arti... Read More about The moral geography of the Earth system.

From state to system: financialization and the water-energy-food-climate nexus (2018)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J., & Matthews, N. (2018). From state to system: financialization and the water-energy-food-climate nexus. Geoforum, 91, 151-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.001

The water-energy-food-climate nexus has risen rapidly in global water governance over the past decade. This article examines the role of global financial networks in articulating the nexus and in connecting it to sustainability programs. It provides... Read More about From state to system: financialization and the water-energy-food-climate nexus.